Cold War Renewed With A Vengeance While Washington Again Lies Paul Craig Roberts The Cold War made a lot of money for the military/security complex for four decades dating from Churchill’s March 5, 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri declaring a Soviet “Iron Curtain” until Reagan and Gorbachev ended the Cold War in the late 1980s. During the Cold War Americans…

A New Recession and a New World Devoid of Washington’s Arrogance? Paul Craig Roberts June 25, 2014. A final number for real US GDP growth in the first quarter of 2014 was released today. The number is not the 2.6% growth rate predicted by the know-nothing economists in January of this year. The number is a decline in GDP of…

RIA Novosti interviews PCR about Washington Busting Up Russia-Eu Economic Relationships “Russia and China have emerged from tyranny. The West is falling into tyranny,” Roberts explained, adding that for Russia and China to be involved with the West is to risk a return to tyranny and “Russians should wash their hopes of being part of a decaying, immoral West, a…

Can Putin’s Diplomacy Prevail Over Washington’s Coercion? Paul Craig Roberts June 24, 2014. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is trying to save the world from war. We should all help him. Today Putin’s presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported that President Putin has asked the Russian legislature to repeal the authorization to use force that was granted in order to protect…

Professor Francis Boyle on Impeachment of Bush and Obama — Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts As Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Richest Representative of the One Percent in the House of Representatives, said: “Impeachment is off the table.” Nevertheless, Insouciant Californians still send The bought-and paid-for hireling to Washington In my day if an experienced professor of international and…

Washington Is Beating The War Drums Paul Craig Roberts I wish I had only good news to bring to readers, or even one item of good news. Alas, goodness has ceased to be a feature of US policy and simply cannot be found in any words or deeds emanating from Washington or the capitals of its European vassal states. The…

Roman Baudzus of Wirtschaftsfacts (Germany) interviews PCR With Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, I spoke about the alienation between Washington and the Paris government, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the development in Ukraine, the BRICS countries diversifying away from the U.S. dollar as well as a range of other interesting…

Guest Column by Stephen F. Cohen: “Lincoln Didn’t Call Confederates Terrorists” I suspect most of my readers are daily visitors to RT. Those who are not need to read this report by Professor Stephen F. Cohen, with whom I am in agreement. http://rt.com/op-edge/165932-lincoln-confederates-terrorists-ukraine/

Washington’s Iraq “Victory” Paul Craig Roberts The citizens of the United States still do not know why their government destroyed Iraq. “National Security” will prevent them from ever knowing. “National Security” is the cloak behind which hides the crimes of the US government. George Herbert Walker Bush, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency who became President courtesy of…

Tiananmen Square Guest Column by Wei Ling Chua and limited time offer of free book on what really happened Dear Friends, On the 25 anniversary of Tiananmen Square I posted a guest column by Brian Becker who pointed out that no massacre occurred in China’s Tiananmen Square. A few US journalists who reported a massacre later retracted the claim, including…

The People Struggle to Find and Retain Representation Paul Craig Roberts Dave Brat, a professor of economics at Virginia’s Randolph-Macon College, is a marked man. Professor Brat defeated Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a prime trophy of the Israel Lobby. I doubt that Eric Cantor ever lost an opportunity to place Israel’s interests above the interests of his constituents.…

John Whitehead asks the questions every American should be asking. Why Should Anyone Trust a Government That Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats, and Treats Its Citizens Like Criminals? By John W. Whitehead “Why should anyone trust a government that has condoned torture, spied on at least 35 world leaders, supports indefinite detention, places bugs in thousands of computers all…

Dear Readers: Here is an eyewitness report of the violence that the Washington-backed government in Kiev is inflicting on those protesting against the anti-Russian regime that Washington has installed in Kiev. This is not information you will hear from the presstitute media or from “your” government. You can ask, “Who is this reporter? How do we know we can believe…

World War II: The Unknown War Paul Craig Roberts In my June 6 column, “The Lies Grow More Audacious,” I mentioned that Obama and the British prime minister, who Obama has as a lap dog, just as George Bush had Tony Blair as lap dog, had managed to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany at the 70th anniversary of the…

Guest Article by Diana Johnstone from CounterPunch, June 6-8, 2014 http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/06/washingtons-iron-curtain-in-ukraine/ Diana Johnstone lays out the facts about Ukraine. A must read. Tightening the U.S. Grip on Western Europe Washington’s Iron Curtain in Ukraine by DIANA JOHNSTONE NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Russia and the West.…

Washington Caught Again In A Lie Paul Craig Roberts In case you didn’t hear from the presstitute media, Syrian president Assad was just re-elected with 88.7% of the vote. Assad is the “brutal dictator” that Obama claims the Syrian people are trying to overthrow. The vote clearly puts the lie, yet again, to Washington. Voting was not possible in some…

Anglo-American Dominance Could Be Coming To An End Guest Column by Umberto Pascali courtesy of Global Research Grand Geopolitical Project: Russia’s Gazprom signs Agreement to Abandon the Dollar By Umberto Pascali Global Research, June 07, 2014 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/grand-geopolitical-project-russias-gazprom-signs-agreement-to-abandon-the-dollar/5386045 “It’s only the tip of the iceberg. A grand geopolitical project is beginning to materialize…” On June 6 2014,…

More Phantom Jobs Created–All In The Wrong Places education is not the answer Paul Craig Roberts Last April I saw a report that 83% of May’s college graduates did not have a job. I remarked that in my day most of us had 2 or 3 job or graduate school offers before we graduated. The latest payroll jobs report issued…

The Lies Grow More Audacious Paul Craig Roberts If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts. The howlers issuing from these occasions are enough to split your sides. Obama and his lap dog Cameron…

Guest Column by Russian President Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin is the only extant leader in the West. He has some things to tell you that are different from the lies emanating from Washington. http://rt.com/news/163676-putin-ukraine-french-us/

Whatever Became Of Morality? — Paul Craig Roberts What are we to make of this? http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html Two 12 year-old white American girls who look perfectly normal stabbed their 12-year old friend 19 times in a murder attempt. By murdering their friend the girls hoped to win the acceptance of a totally fictitious cartoon character on a website. Does this mean…

Tiananmen Square After 25 Years — Brian Becker The Tiananmen Square “massacre,” in which thousands of Chinese students were alleged by Washington and the presstitute media to have been massacred, was entirely a fabrication of the US government and its Ministry of Propaganda. No such massacre occurred, but the myth lives on. Brian Becker, who was on the scene, provides…

Interest Rate Puzzle Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler One of the biggest puzzles in the financial markets this year has been the considerable fall in interest rates despite the Fed’s program of tapering or cutting back the Fed’s bond purchases known as Quantitative Easing. A year ago, when Fed Chairman Bernanke announced the possibility of tapering QE on May…

Controlled Demolition of WTC 7 Now Proven Guest Posting by 9/11 Consensus Panel Professor Daniele Ganser’s guest article on false flag attacks and his lecture on 9/11 will rescue you from the web of official lies spun by the government and presstitute media. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/01/false-flag-attacks-guest-article-professor-daniele-ganser-university-basel/ The latest research establishes that World Trade Center Building 7 was destroyed by controlled demolition. The…

A Conversation with Paul Craig Roberts by Gary Corseri Transitions; Morals; Alliances and Dissolutions CounterPunch, June 2, 2014 “This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can’t be bought. The fireborn are at home in fire.” –Carl Sandburg GC: I’ve been reading your work fairly regularly over the past 4 years. Within this year, I’ve reviewed your…

Are You Ready For Nuclear War? Paul Craig Roberts Pay close attention to Steven Starr’s guest column, “The Lethality of Nuclear Weapons.” http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/05/30/lethality-nuclear-weapons/ Washington thinks nuclear war can be won and is planning for a first strike on Russia, and perhaps China, in order to prevent any challenge to Washington’s world hegemony. The plan is far advanced, and the implementation…

What Obama Told Us At West Point Paul Craig Roberts At West Point Obama told us, to the applause of West Point cadets, that “American exceptionalism” is a doctrine that justifies whatever Washington does. If Washington violates domestic and international law by torturing “detainees” or violates the Nuremberg standard by invading countries that have undertaken no hostile action against the…

False Flag Attacks Guest Article by Professor Daniele Ganser, University of Basel As evidence has accumulated that the official story of 9/11 is false, the dwindling number of defenders of the official conspiracy theory have been reduced to two arguments. One is that no government would attack its own people or stand aside while terrorists did so. The other argument…

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